Deepak Gupta is an anesthesiologist. Sarwan Kumar is an internal medicine physician. Shushovan Chakrabortty is a pain physician.

Balancing employee needs and fair pay during federal holidays

Physician
January 24, 2023

Our previous post discussed how a full-time equivalent equals 2,080 work hours annually. To further clarify, we would like to explain how work hours during federal holidays can be calculated. One approach is to offer employees an incentive by counting each work hour after-hours as 1.5 and each work hour during federal holidays as two during the calculation of payable annual work hours. This can encourage employers to expect …

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Balancing employee needs and fair pay during federal holidays

Health care customers wonder, “To discriminate, or not to discriminate”

Physician
July 12, 2022

Inspired by an essay published in Iowa Law Review by Bartlett and Gulati from Duke Law School that succinctly elaborated on underexplored discrimination by customers.

Now, we will elaborate our thoughts as they correspond to health care.

While practicing clinical medicine, health care professionals, including physicians, may encounter implicit bias of their patients even when the payments for the services rendered to patients are by third-party payers as regulated …

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Health care customers wonder, “To discriminate, or not to discriminate”

A full-time equivalent is 2,080 work hours annually

Physician
March 27, 2022

The magical number for one full-time equivalent (1-FTE) professional is 2,080 work hours annually — 40 work hours per week for 52 weeks in a year.

Professionals can work extra hours during non-vacation weeks to make up for opportunities lost during vacation weeks. For example, 1-FTE can work 52 work hours per week for 40 weeks in a year to accrue a 12-week annual vacation, while 0.5-FTE will need to work …

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A full-time equivalent is 2,080 work hours annually